Eww what an insult to Nintendo

SEGA never got to 14% of the greatness Nintendo was!

I hope nothing kills them.

yeah but the huge Audiences that Nintendo tapped into was because those audiences got to know about the Wii which would not have been possible is PS3 was a hit

Just think would 360 be so high as its now,NO it wouldn't have been and PPS3 would atleast have 50% of 360 userbase of now and if PS3 was succesfull the mom's wouldn't have gotten to know about the Wii so much

yes Nintendo have an advantage for next gen as SONY ad after PS2 as long as they don't fuck up with the price and hardware as SONY did

Yes, there is one company that can kill Nintendo. and that is Nintendo.

All good things come to an end. Including Nintendos reign of power. :P

Nonsense. Genesis did what Nintendidn't.

Release terrible add-ons?

Somebody should warn Sony and MS

Nintendo never gives up. They are all about gaming. Sure the gamecube era was bad for them but did it stop them? No it didn't. They kept their head up and continued a long to reach success again.

Obviously Nintendo could kill themselves, actually, any fall from such a high perch couldn't be merely the result of external factors, but having said that what would a Nintendo-asskicking competitor look like?

Well, clearly it wouldn't just have better tech. If this gen wasn't enough proof then a quick look back at the late 80s and early 90s shows a graveyard of consoles that had superior tech to Nintendo but were zero threat to them.

Sony had success against Nintendo by leveraging their other business segments, luring away developers, and by focusing their marketing on key demographs. Blame Nintendo's survival on handhelds if you wish, but any Nintendo slayer clearly would need to deliver a one-two punch against both their handhelds and consoles. And obviously just doing what Sony did was not enough.

In the early days of Sega 's console business it tried to mimic Nintendo's strategy, and this was only a marginal success. That doesn't mean a company built in Nintendo's image couldn't succeed, but to kill Nintendo this way would require doing what Nintendo does better than Nintendo does it. Moving to a "Nintendon't" strategy as Sega eventually did merely stole one demograph from Nintendo.

I guess what I am saying is that a potential Nintendo killer would have to

• have great 1st party games for all demographs (that do what Nintendo games do only better)
• lure away 3rd parties even moreso than Sony ever did
• be set up to distribute their HW globally
• be able to enter the console and handheld markets in quick succession

Some people have mentioned Apple; I don't think Apple is currently set up to do this, but they are sitting on a mountain of money right now, and they could probably afford to pull this off if they so choose. Imagine if Apple decided to buy out one or two of the large publishers like EA or Activision. Then launched a special version of the iPhone that included typical gaming buttons/controls. Follow that two years later with the iConsole. This could threaten Nintendo in a huge way.

But I doubt anything like this is going to happen.

whooohooo

no way, even in the gamecube gen you are talking about Nintendo made more profit than Sony in games.  The gamecube was sold at a profit, it sold lots of 1st party software, GBA and DS made tons of money, and Sony's strategy with the PS2 was not as good as the PS1.  Sony WAS making Nintendo like profits in the PS1 gen when their strategy was not be the most powerful and not to be a loss leader. 

As long as Nintendo has their core base they can never be defeated.  First party titles alone asure this, and with the sales they get from the 1st party sales they will get a bunch of multiplat titles as well.  For Sony to beat Nintendo they would have to make such good software that people didn't care about Nintendo's first party titles.

Nintendo has such a huge war chest they can afford to have a few bad gens as well.